Movies

Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.

Department-store clerk Larry Young is determined to marry a rich girl. He falls for Elaine Debaux, whom he believes to be the daughter of a wealthy...

A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000,...

After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and heads west to California to begin life anew....

Jack Temple (Washburn) adores his wife, Clara Temple (Hawley) but she is extremely jealous, and accuses him of flirting with a pretty woman in a...

Shows brief glimpses into the lives of movie stars of the time. Included is shots of Elsie Janis in her garden in Tarrytown, where she gives an...

A butler goes on vacation, where he is wrongly taken to be a wealthy man.

Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He quickly runs afoul of the powerful Senator Norton...

Young Jack Wright offers his hand in marriage to the winner of a lottery, but after committing to the winner falls in love with another woman.

Two young people marry in a Continental village and receive the congratulations of all save the rejected suitor. He bides his time while the couple...

A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates, the prison's only doctor falls sick,...

A World War I veteran takes on the Ku Klux Klan when he loses his wife to a womanizing Klansman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in...

Reckless heir of an influential San Francisco family, Perry Danton must prove his worth by taking a job with the family lawyer before he is entrusted...

Ek is a disembodied spirit, required to wait his turn in the boring cosmos until he is allowed to inhabit an earthly body. Impatient, he sneaks off...

A wannabe film star journeys to Hollywood, but soon finds his dreams do not pan out.

Based on the novel of the same name by Mrs. Henry Wood (Ellen Wood).

A truncated version of Wilkie Collins' popular mystery story.

The young artist had searched Paris for a suitable model to pose as a shepherdess in a new picture which he hoped would win him fame. But none of the...

An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.

He was a hard-headed old business man and very mercenary, so when he received a letter from a debtor in a little country town asking for more time in...